Characters

Name: The Sea Gull - Characters
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

IRINA ABKADINA, an actress

CONSTANTINE TREPLIEFF, her son

PETER SORIN, her brother

NINA ZARIETCHNAYA, a young girl, the daughter of a rich landowner

ILIA SHAMRAEFF, the manager of SORIN’S estate

PAULINA, his wife

MASHA, their daughter

BORIS TRIGORIN, an author

EUGENE DORN, a doctor

SIMON MEDVIEDENKO, a schoolmaster

JACOB, a workman

A COOK

A MAIDSERVANT

The scene is laid on SORIN’S estate. Two years elapse between the third and fourth acts.

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Chicago: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, "Characters," The Sea Gull, ed. Burton, Isabel, Lady, 1831-1896 and trans. J. Walker McSpedden in The Sea Gull Original Sources, accessed April 7, 2025, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=EFSBED6RR49KQ3J.

MLA: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich. "Characters." The Sea Gull, edited by Burton, Isabel, Lady, 1831-1896, and translated by J. Walker McSpedden, in The Sea Gull, Original Sources. 7 Apr. 2025. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=EFSBED6RR49KQ3J.

Harvard: Chekhov, AP, 'Characters' in The Sea Gull, ed. and trans. . cited in , The Sea Gull. Original Sources, retrieved 7 April 2025, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=EFSBED6RR49KQ3J.